Academy
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Filter Affiliation - University: Instituto Superior Técnico

Nuno Gonçalves

I am an incoming LTI PhD student at CMU and Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), with a background in Physics and Deep Learning. My research interests lie primarily in GPU optimization and efficient NLP.

Lara Neves

Lara Sá Neves is a Biomedical and Data Science Engineer passionate about transparent, adaptive AI. She’s an incoming CS PhD student, and her goals are to advance trustworthy machine learning and build impactful healthcare solutions through research and innovation.

João Pereira

Master’s in Computer Science with specializations in Cybersecurity and Distributed Systems from Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon). Now pursuing a dual-degree Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at CMU and IST, focusing on program analysis and software security.

João Cortes

João Cortes is currently pursuing his Ph.D in Engineering and Public Policy.. Cortes has worked for 5 years in Data Science and AI Engineering for the European Central Bank, Deloitte Technology and the Portuguese Foreign Trade and Investment Agency. He has also worked as a Researcher at the Institute of Public Policy – Lisbon; at Nova SBE’s Economics For Policy Knowledge Centre and at the Office for Strategy and Studies of the Portuguese Ministry of Economics. In his part time, Cortes has also been invited to lecture on Econometrics for Financial Markets at ISCTE.  João holds a Master’s Degree in Economics with a Major in Data Science from Nova School of Business and Economics, where he was part of the Nova SBE Fellowship for Excellence program.